We have five definable senses. Experts tell us that if we remove any one of these, the rest become sharper. By that we mean that we hear better, taste more precisely, and can differentiate smells that would have seemed similar a short time before.
A good example of this is the comic book character Daredevil. He is a blind man who has learned to function flawlessly by his other four senses alone.
We can see how this works when we turn out the lights in our homes at night. We can walk past the chair, avoid the dog bed in front of the television, and even find the door without bumping anything. We become better at one thing because we aren’t paying attention to something else.
2 Corinthians 5:7 tells us:
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
God wants us to turn our vision off. Sometimes we think of this scripture in terms of not receiving the things God has promised, but more importantly, the world can seem garish and distracting. When we turn off our vision, we can feel the power of our faith unobstructed by what we see.
Ephesians 2:8 supports this.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.”
What we see around us in the world cannot bring us salvation. It only leads us astray. It is our faith in God that helps us walk past the chair, avoid the dog bed, and find the door. It is in closing our eyes to the temptations around us that we can sense where God wishes us to place each and every footstep.
Hebrews 11:1 brings this essential truth home to us.
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
We cannot see our salvation in the world around us. We make a choice to pay attention to that which is invisible to mortal man. We decide, as a conscious choice, that we will step out on what we know, not what we see.
Romans 10:9 explains how it all works.
“Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Yes, it’s really that simple. We just close our eyes to the world’s truth, and we do the Blind Man’s Walk. We let our faith become our guide through this life, for doing that will lead us straight into the arms of the Father.
Faith in the Father must be our spiritual guide, not trust in the world that tries to trip us up.
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